Macroeconomics:

This is one of the courses offered at PHS that allows our students to meet the requirements for high school graduation and gain college credit. This course is  offered through Fond Du Lac College, Cloquet MN.

As a course that offers college level credit for our students, it is my goal to expose my students to many of the technologies they may experience when they go off to their post-PHS choice for their education. Some of the technologies that we will use will include this website, GoogleDocs, Dropbox,  multimedia presentations, cooperative learning opportunities, and on-line research sources. Today's students are very tech saavy but need the opportunity to experience these technologies in preparation for their future. This class will give the students the chance to work with these tools in a situation that is not an extremely high stakes situation. This class will essentially be a paper-free class. All assignments will be turned in via GoogleDocs or Dropbox unless students make other arrangements with the me due to lack of access to a computer and the internet. There may be times when the technology does not work exactly as we hope it will and at that point we will make the adjustments that are necessary.

Students will recieve quarterly grades for their classwork for their PHS credit.  The grade for the Fond Du Lac college credit will be the average of the four quarter grade.  The college grade does not recieve a +/- increment (only whole letter grades are used).

Quotes:

"Henry Ford was right.  A prosperous economy  requires that workers be able to buy the products    that they produce.  This is as true in a global  economy as a national one."  - John J. Sweeney

"Economy is the method by which we prepare for       the improvements of tomorrow."  -Calvin Coolidge

"Infaltion is when you pay $15 for the $10 haircut      you used to get for $5 when you had hair."  - Sam Ewing